Importance of Medicine

Kanu Caplash

9/11/2012

Language Arts

Mr. Horvath

                                               It has saved us and yet we underrate it.

            “By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too,” by William Shakespeare. He is quoting that without medicine we can’t extend our life span. It is common that medicine may not seize death but, without medicine we can’t have people live up to 122 years old. Without medicine our life expectancy could be as few as 38 years old.  Medicine is so very important to the economy, innovation and to survival.

Firstly, the economy and the world owe medicine a lot for the fact it has helped the economy quiet much. This is because of where these doctors are working. This is in hospitals, which of course is a big part of medicine for the fact that without them the doctors wouldn't have any place to work. These hospitals create thousands of jobs each year. Also these jobs aren't minimum wage. No, these jobs were high paying jobs like a-millionaire-who-can-afford-a-Maybach (High luxury brand car).  Also these people making thousands upon thousands of dollars and are pumping more money into the economy. A great example of this is in Missouri.  There they are going to put in a new medical center which will create 3,500 jobs and will create annually revenue of about 390 million dollars.  Imagine if each state had a couple of these medical centers in each state. There would be a significant decrease in the unemployment rate. Also the economy could get to pre-recession standards.  Clearly you can see that hospitals a big part of medicine is really helping the economy and lowering the unemployment rate.

Secondly medicine is leading the way of innovation so much that they have created another major in college. This called majoring in Bio-medical engineering. Also since this part of medicine is so important that they can have only the best do this course. From many resources I have been told that it has been credited with being one of the hardest courses and routes to take in life. But those who graduate and go on to become bio-medical engineer spend their lives help improve the way doctors do their job. Some great examples of this are of when the first camera phone came out. When this happened these engineers had worked hard to really use this to help the physicians of medicine. So after hours of inventors working an inventor got it. He finally created a device that doctors could operate to send down people throats and other openings of their bodies. So finally they came up with device a controller at the end of a very long tube which at the end of that had a camera. These physicians had found it very useful and so did those in law enforcement as not they were able to see more because of the technology for this device. So therefore as you can see biomedical engineering a big part of medicine is always at the forefront of coinage.

Lastly, parts and people of medicine have helped the economy, helped create and refine the robotic arm and because of the people of medicine we have been potentially saved from extinction or reduced to levels not seen till prehistoric times. A great example is of how a doctor had found a cure for one of the deadliest virus, called smallpox.  This disease has lasted from 430 B.C.E to 1979. That is over 23 hundred years. Also it killed just about 300 million people in the 20^th century alone.  But if it weren't for a dedicated doctor in England by the name of John Fewster. This man had test tons of other methods till finally due to his dedication was able to find that cowpox was the cure. Also many medical researchers say that if we didn't find a cure that human race could be extinct within the next hundred years. So without doctors like with this dedicating their lives through medicine we wouldn't have 760 vaccines.  So therefore as you can see vaccination a quite large part of precautionary medicine has prevented billions of lives getting infected from hundreds of life threatening diseases.

I conclude that the field of medicine and those who are associated with it are arguably the most important people and field in all of history.  It has created thousands of jobs and pumped lots of money into the economy, has help and invented things like the robotic arm and has prevented the populace from contracting diseases that can kill us in seconds or over years. So ask yourself how many times your body has been damaged. Then ask yourself how the damage was fixed. Who do you have to thank?